In their role as personal communication devices, mobile phones are a natural choice for sharing and communicating emotions. However, their functionalities are currently very limit...
Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Florian Alt, Albrecht Schm...
Modern wireless interfaces support a physical layer capability called Message in Message (MIM). Briefly, MIM allows a receiver to disengage from an ongoing reception, and engage ...
Justin Manweiler, Naveen Santhapuri, Souvik Sen, R...
The digital divide refers to a lack of technological access, part of which involves exclusion from a blooming arena of social interaction. People without mobile phones or PCs cann...
Clare Owens, David E. Millard, Andrew Stanford-Cla...
Opportunistic networking is emerging as a technique to exploit chance encounters among mobile nodes, and is distinct from previously studied behaviors found in sensor and ad hoc n...
Information grounds are places where people exchange information. Here we examine use of a mobile device-based social networking service as an information ground. The service allo...